Ex Astris Scientia — i love pitting classically trained magic users...

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
angelsakubud
starpeace

i love pitting classically trained magic users against self-taught magic users in sci-fi/fantasy but it shouldn’t be snobbish disdain for them it should be terror

starpeace

“WHO TAUGHT YOU LIGHTNING BEFORE BASIC TELEKINESIS. LOSING MY MIND WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU JUST DID IT. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAST WITH YOUR BARE HANDS

elidyce

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT YOU’VE ‘HACKED’ MANA DRAIN

WHAT DO YOU MEAN ‘DRINK SOME JUICE’

WHAT IS ‘LOW BLOOD SUGAR’

WHY IS THIS WORKING

I HATE YOU SO MUCH

superjustaguyblog

Okay but other direction can ALSO be a lot of fun

“What do you mean I don’t have to burn half my blood to create a fireball?”

“Why can you teleport more than once without vomiting? WTF is ‘quantum displacement awareness’???”

“You know HOW many spells? HOW? … What do you mean ‘my spell book’?”

“Ooooh, you’re just summoning water portions from the Plane of Water… Lol I thought I HAD to combine hydrogen and oxygen molecules to generate water in small amounts. That’s so much easier then what I was doing!”

anachronistic-cat

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marquis-lizbian

this does, in fact, map beautifully onto how self-taught programmers will be able to perform near miracles with they’re code simply because they didn’t know that conventional wisdom said the task was impossible, but can’t perform many relatively simple things without a novel’s worth of spaghetti code